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impale

verb as in stab

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And the phenomenon continues—nowhere more obviously than in Romania, where, in 2019, an Orthodox priest was prosecuted for his alleged role in exhuming and impaling a corpse.

The titular alien is fast, has razor-sharp teeth and a whip-like tail capable of impaling its victims.

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Shooting the scene where Ellie walks in just as Abby impales Joel with a broken golf club was a pivotal experience.

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They died violently in the 1970s, one by gunfire, the other impaled on a fence during a burglary.

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An American, 47, reportedly tried to climb over a fence in Piazza del Colosseo, presumably to get a closer look at the Colosseum, before falling and impaling himself.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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